The Country Place Era was a period, from about 1890 to 1930,[1] of American landscape architecture design during which wealthy Americans commissioned extensive gardens at their country estates, emulating European gardens that the Americans had seen in their European travels.
[2] An example is Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
[3] Landscape architects that were involved included Charles Gillette, Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Adam Platt, and Beatrix Farrand.
[2] Marian Cruger Coffin, an early female architect, was another participant[4] as well as Ellen Shipman and Beatrix Farrand.
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